Measurement of the threshold sensitivity of honeybees to weak, extremely low-frequency magnetic fields [PDF]
, 1997 Experiments reported previously demonstrate that free-flying honeybees are able to detect static intensity fluctuations as weak as 26 nT against the background, earth-strength magnetic field.
Boyce, C. K. +3 more
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Genomic Expansion of Magnetotactic Bacteria Reveals an Early Common Origin of Magnetotaxis with Lineage-specific Evolution [PDF]
, 2018 The origin and evolution of magnetoreception, which in diverse prokaryotes and protozoa is known as magnetotaxis and enables these microorganisms to detect Earth’s magnetic field for orientation and navigation, is not well understood in evolutionary ...
A Gurevich +67 more
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.The transition of cetaceans from a terrestrial to an aquatic environment involved a crucial sensory adaptation to environments with limited visibility. Vibrissae, important mechanoreceptors, undergo an ontogenetic transformation in odontocetes. This research describes the histomorphology of vibrissae and crypts at different developmental stages ...
Cecilia Mariana Krmpotic +10 more
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Magnetoreception in animals [PDF]
Physics Today, 2008 Determining how animals orient themselves using Earth’s magnetic field can be even more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack. It is like finding a needle in a stack of needles.
Sönke Johnsen, Kenneth J. Lohmann
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Advanced circular statistics in biology: Multiple factors, interactions and repeated measures
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.Abstract Circular data is common across biology and the wider sciences, but presents unique analytical challenges due to their wrapped structure, where endpoints coincide (e.g. 360° = 0°). This requires the use of specific statistical methods. Traditional tests like the Rayleigh and Watson U2 tests remain widely used, but lack flexibility in handling ...
Lukas Landler +2 more
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Review of Magnetic Shark Deterrents: Hypothetical Mechanisms and Evidence for Selectivity
, 2014 Several papers published since 2006 describe effects of magnetic fields on elasmobranchs and assess their utility in reducing negative interactions between sharks and humans, including bycatch reduction.
Courtney, Joshua +2 more
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Sensing Magnetic Directions in Birds: Radical Pair Processes Involving Cryptochrome [PDF]
, 2014 Birds can use the geomagnetic field for compass orientation. Behavioral experiments, mostly with migrating passerines, revealed three characteristics of the avian magnetic compass: (1) it works spontaneously only in a narrow functional window around the ...
Roswitha Wiltschko, Wolfgang Wiltschko
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A supramolecular assembly of cone‐specific G‐protein and cryptochrome 4a on lipid bilayer
The FEBS Journal, EarlyView.Immobilized phospholipid bilayers on a sensor chip surface serve as membrane platform to investigate critical protein–lipid and protein–protein interaction processes by surface plasmon resonance. The putative magnetoreceptor cryptochrome 4a and the myristoylated cone‐specific G‐protein α‐subunit (Gtα) bind with high affinity to immobilized lipid ...
Ümmügülsüm Güzelsoy‐Flügge +3 more
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Magnetosensory Power Devices Based on AlGaN/GaN Heterojunctions for Interactive Electronics
Advanced Electronic Materials, 2023 The advances in biological magnetoreception and microelectronics have promoted the vigorous development of interactive electronic devices capable of noncontact interaction and control via magnetic fields.
Xingyu Zhou +11 more
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Development of lateralization of the magnetic compass in a migratory bird [PDF]
, 2012 The magnetic compass of a migratory bird, the European robin (Erithacus rubecula), was shown to be lateralized in favour of the right eye/left brain hemisphere.
Batschelet E. +5 more
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